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But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic book nerd.
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.
Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.
I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.
I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.
What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.
I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.
I think nobody knows more about comic book characters than Seth Green. I thought I knew a lot, and he leaves me in the dust.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
Most people think of me as a makeup guru, but might be surprised to know I'm also a trained artist and a huge comic book fan.
A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.
I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.
I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.
Everything is in how you are going to handle it. As a lifelong nightclub comic, I'm ready to handle whatever I have to handle.
I always loved Batman, the Michael Keaton 'Batman.' I loved those films, and Superman, but I was never a real comic book geek.
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.
I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I had 'The Flash' Underoos.
One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.